Potassium condensates in optical tweezers

POSTER

Abstract

We present progress on a compact optical tweezer apparatus featuring multiple Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of potassium 39. The experiment aims to study systems whose evolution is governed by an interplay between measurement, feedback, and unitary evolution: a regime sometimes called quantum interactive dynamics. Additional scientific goals include the study of quantum thermodynamic engines. Relevant experimental capabilities include non-destructive phase-contrast imaging, Feshbach-tuned contact interactions, and Rydberg interactions.

*We acknowledge support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant DOI 10.37807/gbmf12239), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DURIP FA9550-22-1-0489), the W.M. Keck foundation, and the Eddleman Center for Quantum Innovation.

Presenters

  • Jeremy Estes

    • University of California Santa Barbara

Authors

  • Jeremy Estes

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • David M Weld

    • UC Santa Barbara
    • University of California Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Andrew Jayich

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Jared E Pagett

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Madeleine Bow Jun Leibovitch

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Samyuktha Ramanan

    • University of California, Santa Barbara